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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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